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You know how it is? You get to the till and you carefully put all your shopping out on the moving strip so all the heavy stuff is at the front. That way packing it at the other end is easy and you don't end up dropping your washing liquid on top of your cakes...

...and then the checkout operator proceeds to pick up the items seemingly at random, as if they've seen your game and are determined to stop it right now before you get any clever ideas.

So: Is this deliberate? Is this one of those ways to make a dull job go by more quickly?

on a supermarket till, in Safeways, and I used to do everything in my power to annoy customers when it was busy and doing my head in. Literally the only thing that kept me sane. Used to get out my bags of change when the queues started, adjust my chair etc etc. When it got quiet then i'd be the king of customer service and would make friends with everyone who came along. Good times. Good fucking times.

You should be as nice as you can to those poor people, really is one of the worst jobs imaginable. Warrants the utmost patience on the customers part.

work in Tesco as a Saturday gal and I never intentionally tried to annoy customers, but certainly if someone was rude to me I would put their eggs in with their tins. Or something equally pathetic. I only did this about twice in the whole of my short-lived checkout girl career, mind

positioning in that way... I do it to maximise the speed of unpacking... things for the fridge, things for the tea and coffe cupboard etc.
I don't imagine that your system is particularly visible to the naked eye.

and charge people a couple of pounds for their whole trolley.Nobody would say anything, which could be quite funny as they would often look at me as if I had made a mistake and wait for me to sort it out-which I never did. My friends would come in and buy crates of Kronenbourg for a pound. I guess you'd call this stealing. Of course, morons would get the opposite treatment.

if you notice, the conveyor belt is often narrower at the till end than at the far end, with a metal wall to stop things falling off. however, with certain objects, this can lead to the movement of the conveyor belt making them fall off or get squashed against the wall, neither of which are desirable. therefore, sometimes it pays to take things from further back. also, if there are lots of objects on a short length of belt, doing this can also reduce the density, as it stops the belt moving further along, making life easier because you arent knocking things over and they arent getting squashed.

when people put their heavy things at the front and don't lay the tall items on their sides. i don't have any particular order for putting my food on the 'moving strip' other than putting the eggs out last. i've stopped doing that now since people stacking their heavy TALL objects first means that they tend to fall on my eggs. FUCKERS. nb. this has only happened to far in morrisons.